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Highly luminous rapid flares are characteristic of processes around compact objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. In the high energy regime of X- and gamma-rays, outbursts with variability time-scales of seconds and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 A. Stefanescu , G. Kanbach , A. Słowikowska , J. Greiner , S. McBreen , G. Sala

We investigate the contribution of very weak flares to the coronal luminosity of low-mass active stars. We analyze EUVE/DS events data from FK Aqr, V1054 Oph, and AD Leo and conclude that in all these cases the coronal emission is dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vinay Kashyap , Jeremy Drake , Manuel Guedel , Marc Audard

Merger of a white dwarf binary creates a differentially rotating object which is expected to generate strong magnetic fields. Kinetic energy stored in differential rotation is partially dissipated in the magnetically dominated corona, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Recent observations suggest that long-duration gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows are produced by highly relativistic jets emitted in core-collapse explosions. As the jet makes its way out of the stellar mantle, a bow shock runs ahead…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Davide Lazzati

We present a unified computational framework which can be used to describe impulsive flares on the Sun and on dMe stars. The models assume that the flare impulsive phase is caused by a beam of charged particles that is accelerated in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Joel C. Allred , Adam F. Kowalski , Mats Carlsson

M dwarfs are known to flare on timescales from minutes to hours, with flux increases of several magnitudes in the blue/near-UV. These frequent, powerful events, which are caused by magnetic reconnection, will have a strong observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Eric J. Hilton , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Jon Holtzman

Flickering buoyant diffusion methane flames in weakly rotatory flows were computationally and theoretically investigated. The prominent computational finding is that the flicker frequency nonlinearly increases with the rotational intensity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-06 Tao Yang , Peng Zhang

Using the multi-wavelength images and the photospheric magnetograms from the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we study the flare which was associated by the only one coronal mass ejection (CME) in active region (AR) 12192. The eruption of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Xiaohong Li , Shuhong Yang , Huadong Chen , Ting Li , Jun Zhang

Mergers of spinning black holes can give recoil velocities from gravitational radiation up to several thousand km/s. A recoiling supermassive black hole in an AGN retains the inner part of its accretion disk. Marginally bound material…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 G. A. Shields , E. W. Bonning

The origin of gamma-ray flares observed from blazars is one of the major mysteries in jet physics. We have attempted to address this problem following a novel spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting technique that explored the flaring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Vaidehi S. Paliya , Markus Boettcher , Mark Gurwell , C. S. Stalin

Solar flares stem from the reconnection of twisted magnetic field lines in the solar photosphere. The energy and waiting time distributions of these events follow complex patterns that have been carefully considered in the past and that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 M. Mendoza , A. Kaydul , L. de Arcangelis , J. S. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

High-resolution near infrared observations with GRAVITY instrument have revealed rapid orbital motions of a hot spot around Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, during its three bright flares. The projected distances…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Xi Lin , Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan

Blazars are a subclass of AGN and flaring in multi-TeV gamma-ray seems to be the major activity in high energy blazars a subgrup of blazars. Flaring is also unpredictable and switches between quiescent and active states involving different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Sarira Sahu

Flares are intense explosions on the solar and stellar surfaces, and solar flares are sometimes accompanied by filament or prominence eruptions. Recently, a large filament eruption associated with a superflare on a solar-type star EK Dra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Kai Ikuta , Kazunari Shibata

The coalescence of two neutron stars is accompanied by the emission of gravitational waves, and can also feature electromagnetic counterparts powered by mass ejecta and the formation of a relativistic jet after the merger. Since neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Elias R. Most , Alexander A. Philippov

We propose a model of hard X-ray flares in protostars observed by ASCA satellite. Assuming that the dipole magnetic field of the protostar threads the protostellar disk, we carried out 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. R. Hayashi , K. Shibata , R. Matsumoto

Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Sijie Yu , Andrea F. Battaglia , William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

(abridged) The heating mechanism at high densities during M dwarf flares is poorly understood. Spectra of M dwarf flares in the optical and near-ultraviolet wavelength regimes have revealed three continuum components during the impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Mats Carlsson , Joel C. Allred , Han Uitenbroek , Rachel A. Osten , Gordon Holman

Three times of supergiant flares from soft $\gamma$-ray repeatres are observed, with typical released energy of $\sim 10^{44-47}$ erg. A conventional model (i.e., the magnetar model) for such events is catastrophic magnetism-powered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. X. Xu , D. J. Tao , Y. Yang

We report simultaneous multicolour observations in 5 bands (UBVRI) of the flickering variability of the cataclysmic variable AE Aqr. Our aim is to estimate the parameters (colours, temperature, size) of the fireballs that produce the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. K. Zamanov , G. Y. Latev , K. A. Stoyanov , S. Boeva , B. Spassov , S. V. Tsvetkova